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crawbob


noun a variant of craydab.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Tamworth NSW and always used crawbob. Your map seems to exclude this area. I now live in Griffith, and yet people here always say Craybob or Yabbie.

Contributor's comments: You mention 'crawbob' and 'craydad', but not the word that seemed to be standard in the area my family came from (Eugowra, in the central west of NSW). The local term there was a synthesis of the two: craybob.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Tamworth, NSW and we always said crawbob. I've never heard it used anywhere else.